Title:The Fundamentalisation of Social Rights
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Author(s):EUI Social and Labour Law Working GroupDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAW; 2009/05Abstract:The place and legal value of social rights in the EU Charter is only one episode (albeit a long drawn out episode, lasting since 2000)in the ongoing struggle about the ‘fundamentalisation’ of social rights, which is the ...

Title:Gender quota spill-over in Sweden : from politics to business?
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Author(s):FREIDENVALL, LenitaDate:2015Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAW; 2015/28Abstract:Ever since the 1990s, legislated gender quotas have been adopted across the world as a means to increase the number of women in elected bodies. In recent years, legislated gender quotas have also been adopted to rectify ...

Title:Gender quotas for corporate boards in Norway
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Author(s):TEIGEN, MariDate:2015Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAW; 2015/22Abstract:The gender quota reform for corporate boards, first adopted in Norway in 2003 and fully implemented from 2008, has had great repercussions. A wave of diffusion of corporate board quota legislation has swept across Europe, ...

Title:A global cross-border insolvency framework for financial institutions
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Author(s):WOLF, AnnikaDate:2015Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP; 2015/01Abstract:The recent financial crisis has shown that national frameworks have been insufficient to stem the cross-border effects of the failure of a systemically important financial institution. This paper refers to the challenges ...